Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up

Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by to3m on Sunday March 05, 2017 @03:11PM (#13798252)

You can't copy and paste an image out of Photos, either. It's really quite ridiculous.

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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by threeseed on Sunday March 05, 2017 @05:51PM (#13799338)

1. Open Photos.

2. Select Photo.

3. Edit Menu -> Copy.

4. Open TextEdit.

5. Edit Menu -> Paste.

It is ridiculous. Ridiculously simple.

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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by to3m on Sunday March 05, 2017 @07:11PM (#13799751)

After some experimentation, it turns out my problem was that I expected - ridiculous, I know - that it would copy image data in some form that's comprehensible to Gimp, Firefox and Thunderbird. So I now rather suspect that Photos is using some new API, that Gimp/Firefox/Thunderbird aren't, and that this new API is, for no particular reason that I can see, not remotely backwards-compatible.

Feels like this forms a data point for the thread - since meanwhile, on Windows, I have a couple of programs in my bin folder that I use fairly regularly that I compiled in 2006.

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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by Angostura on Sunday March 05, 2017 @05:12PM (#13799089)

Yes you can - I've just done it.

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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by tqkxzugoaupvwqr on Sunday March 05, 2017 @05:17PM (#13799123)

Instead of being condescending you could have explained how to do it.

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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by Angostura on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @03:51PM (#13814743)

Sorry, it really was a question of selecting a picture and the selecting copy from the menu. I wasn't trying to be an arse.

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